They're all pals with Bush now — just don't mention the war

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BBC
By Roland Watson and Roger Boyes
So keenly anticipated is the President’s arrival in Brussels that his visit has already been hailed a wild success. Although differences remain with Europe’s leaders, they are ready to do business with him



WHEN Gerhard Schröder was re-elected German Chancellor in September 2002 he received the usual congratulatory telephone calls from fellow world leaders — with the notable exception of President Bush, who was disgusted that Herr Schröder had used America as a punchbag to turn around his faltering campaign.

When Mr Bush was re-elected last November, Herr Schröder rang the White House to congratulate him. The problem this time was that Mr Bush talked and talked and talked.

Herr Schröder had a plane to catch. With the loquacious President showing no sign of shutting up, Herr Schröder had to make his apologies and leave.

Mr Bush heads to Europe next week with those incidents serving to remind how petulant transatlantic relations became during his first term, and what a difference a presidential election makes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1490493,00.html

[robbedvoter]

1. Sez a Murdoch paper

[tanyev]

2. Don't mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think

I got away with it. So it's all forgotten now and let's hear no more about it. So that's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a pickled Goering and two Colditz salads...no wait a minute...I got confused because everyone keeps mentioning the war.


Basil Fawlty: Is something wrong?
4th German: Will you please stop talking about the war?
Basil Fawlty: Me? You started it!
4th German: We did not start it.
Basil Fawlty: Yes you did, you invaded Poland.


Watery Fowls!

[pretzel4gore]

3. timesonline, roger boyes, roland watson....

hmmm....what dope are they pushing? I wouldn't buy anything from bushjunkies, would you?
what a buncha bushit....'do bizness' with a known war criminal and thief... this is more 'setting the tone' then anything else, by a couple cheap (mustachioed) mediawhores...

[cestpaspossible]

4. The Europeans will be as sincere as Bush

in their expressions of solidarity.